Maybe, maybe not. His numbers have been impressive--but as with other small, skilled players, there's no guarantee he can hack it in the NHL. The odds are still stacked against him. Time will tell, I guess.

He may not stick, but he is earning his shot for a long look.

Some offensive output from the bottom 6 would look real good on the Rangers.

Wether he sticks at the NHL level is yet TBD, but ha's making a case for a loong look.

I like Wilson as a grinder type in future if he pans out and Yogan needs this IMHO. He's been sitting for a while. In Greenville, he'll gain some more play and will do well. I'm sure he'll be back in CT soon enough.

Don't look now, but Cam Talbot is quietly having a very good start to the season on a not-very-good team with a bad defensive blueliner group. He's older, but a lot of goalies develop later, and that's been his career trajectory from the start. At every level from the time he was a kid to juniors to college, he has been a late bloomer.

Considering that the AHL this year, due to the lockout, has an extraordinary number of NHLers and middling players (who in a normal year would be going back and forth, but this year are sitting in the AHL full time), his performance has been encouraging.

Seems unlikely. Biron is one of the top backups around, and Talbot needs playing time, not a spot on the pine. And if you carry Talbot in the NHL, you have nothing in Hartford and nowhere to put Biron.

Seems unlikely. Biron is one of the top backups around, and Talbot needs playing time, not a spot on the pine. And if you carry Talbot in the NHL, you have nothing in Hartford and nowhere to put Biron.

Seems unlikely. Biron is one of the top backups around, and Talbot needs playing time, not a spot on the pine. And if you carry Talbot in the NHL, you have nothing in Hartford and nowhere to put Biron.

Cam Talbot has no future here. Neither will any goalie coming up the pipelines in the next 3 years.

Biron will retire in less than 3 years. There's no reason why a young backup can't take over his job in the next couple of years, though almost certainly not this year.

Barring injury or his losing interest in hockey, Lundqvist will play another 10 years, give or take a couple years, so obviously nobody will beat him out for the starting role, but Biron will need to be replaced much sooner than that.

And as far as Lundqvist goes, since goalies take 6-10 years post-draft to develop into being a starter, we should start taking stabs at goalies in later rounds. Maybe one of the goalies we draft in the next 3-5 years will pan out.